Medinek Hotel Kutna Hora

... then went out for a beer or so and some food in Prague, near the beautiful Charles Bridge, which I finally checked out, and took tons more pictures.<br><br>After dinner and drinks I came back home with Madlenka, and here I am, super pooped out and trying to catch up with all of my pictures and videos...<br><br>That's about it for now! I think I'll go walking around town for a bit tomorrow with Casey, one of the girls I've met from the course.<br><br>Word..<br>

... had just left. It also appears that there are no more buses to the train station and no cabs at the bus station. With the train 49 minutes away by foot it is too late to hoof it. We walk quickly back to town in an attempt to find a cab. I finally spot one and try to wave it down but it does not seem to want to stop. Sharon is not willing to accept no and gets in front of it. The strategy works. We make it to the train with 5 minutes to spare. Good job Sharon!

... aid=2026415&amp;id=1064002 622&amp;l=f905a00fcb<br><br>H&#345;ensk o is the town that we set off from. A tiny little touristy town which caters for all the German tourists. You can buy anything from a jesus statue to bras &amp; underwear in the Vietnamese stalls that line the main thoroughfare.<br><br>I need to steal some photos from my friends as I never have any photos with me in them!

... formations. The light in which the miners had to work (as simulated by the guide) was laughably low; the progress they made (two inches a day) laughably slow; the dangers they faced (as did all miners at the time) myriad. For a while, Kutna Hora produced much of the western world&#8217;s silver, minting it right in town and getting rich in the process. We learned about the refinement and coining process after the Czechs ...

After a few Days in Krakow Danny and i decided to catch an over night train to a place called Kutna Hora about 7 hours away in the Czech republic. It is about 65km from Prague and the home of a church decorated with the bones of 40 000 dead people. Apparently the church was originally built about a thousand years ago on ground sprinkled with soil brought back from the grave of Jesus himself. This of course made the ground incredibly ...

... control of the church and its grounds, and when the graveyard became full, he asked a local worker to use the bones that were piling up to decorate the chapel itself (which actually then became known as an ossuary or bone chapel). The effect is weird, macabre, somewhat disturbing, yet oddly fascinating. Pyramids of skulls, arches of femurs, a chandelier made up of every human bone in the body..............its all ...

I woke up this Sunday to Joe asking me if I wanted to take a drive to go see the bone church in Kutna Hora. So, we hopped in the car and off we went. It was about an hour and fifteen minute drive to Kutna Hora. When we got to the town, we weren't sure where the church was, but after driving around for a while, we found it. After arriving at the bone church, I ...

... fascination with the macabre: Kutná Hora is most famous for its Cistercian chapel in the industrial outskirts, with an ossuary decorated entirely out of bones. Well, I can't exactly claim the moral ground - I found the place fascinating on my earlier visit some five years ago. I was a little surprised to see how busy the outbound train was with daytrippers though (but perhaps I shouldn't have been). Last time I was here, I had the place mostly to ...

... front-right pannier crunched into the foot-high kerb. This pivoted the front wheel into the same kerb, throwing the bike onto the road, the left pannier onto the roundabout and me onto the pavement where I landed curled into a foetal position and scraped across the stones. When all had come to a standstill, I breathed deeply and took stock. Madelaine (as the bike is now christened) wasn't broken, the bags all reattached and, apart from a few minor grazes, my first ...

... hotel Strelnice is ideal. Czech out these foods &amp; drinks: I remember their houskové knedlíky (bread dumplings) a side dish that was served with gravy. This is something I haven't ever seen anywhere else and it was quite delicious. Palacinky - these yummy crepes are filled with fruit or jelly and topped with whipped cream and chocolate. It's so hard to choose, so they made it easy ...